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Original Title:	The Hummingbird's Daughter
ISBN:	0316154520 (ISBN13: 9780316154529)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Hummingbird's Daughter
Setting:	Mexico
Literary Awards:	Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2006)

The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter) Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.

It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in Mexico. Sixteen year old Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from the dead with the power to heal - but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora.

The Hummingbird's Daughter is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.

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Title	:	The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter)
Author	:	Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	April 3rd 2006 by Back Bay Books (first published May 17th 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Magical Realism

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I really slogged through this. Im not sure why I had such a difficult time reading it. Im glad that I did. I ended up enjoying it but I wasnt wild about it. It's well written, I liked some of the characters including Huila and Teresa; many of the characters were interesting, although often infuriating. I read as a skeptic but that shouldnt have detracted from my enjoyment as it hasnt with other similar themed books. The book was disturbing, violent and depicted many atrocities that humans commit

In the second half of the nineteenth century, a little girl is born to a laborer on a large ranch in Sinaloa, Mexico. Her father is unknown and her mother soon abandons her, but she scrambles her way to survival under the eye of her aunt and a favored servant at the patróns houseHuila, the local curandera. The curandera, believing her marked with spiritual potential, begins to teach her what she knows.Thus begins an extraordinary tale at once mundane and magical. It draws in politics, history,

Maybe I should recuse myself because Im so partial to magical realism, but I think from any perspective whatsover, The Hummingbirds Daughter is a joy of a book. Luis Urrea is dealing here not just with history, but the history and politics of his family and of his familys native land.So, family saga/historical fiction, politics, religion (Even worse than politics, says one Captain), revolution, and more. A rich mix that would defeat a lesser writer, but Urrea is unquestionably up to the

First read Luis Alberto Urreas Hummingbirds Daughter nearly 13 years ago. It is still incredible! Something about Urreas ability to evoke the landscape and capture a mood really drew me into this story. The mix of the lyrical and the historical evokes the political and social upheaval of the period. And then there is Urreas writing style. Maybe its just me, but when I read magic realism I think revolution. It is also super interesting to me that Urrea took stories about a distant family member,

Bella Melodía Mexicana de Santa de Cabor4.25 starsMexican author Urrea's mystical mural of a tale following a female saint, known as the "Mexican Joan of Arc" ("Everything the government does...is morally wrong"). Born the love-child of a young wealthy Mexican rancher and a poor Indian girl named "Hummingbird," who abandoned her shortly after birth, she was raped, beaten and apparently died at age 15 and came back to life. Thereafter, she has near-messianic powers of healing as well as

I still dream of this book. And a year later, I am still looking for this book, remade. Like an old girlfired or a wife now dead that will be the ideal all other women in a man's life are compared to. Damn...how can I describe this...My last two years of undergrad, I focused primarily on Female Medieval Mystical Writers. I love how these women brought their faith into their bodies, and write from there...bringing god into themselves as a lover, a layer of skin, a wealt. I love their absolute

This review has been revised on completion. Teresita, the Hummingbird's daughter, existed. She is an acknowledged saint. In this book you learn about her life in Mexico, until she was forced to leave at the age of 19. You learn about Mexico (food, lifestyle, religious beliefs and customs) and about the Mexican Civil War that took place in the last decade of the 1800s. You learn about her role in this war. Teresita was a distant cousin to the author. Although based on known fact, it is a novel.